Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) told religious conservatives at the Values Voters Summit this weekend that blood might have to be shed if Hillary Clinton is elected president.

"I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it physically,” Bevin said Saturday. “But that may, in fact, be the case."

He added, citing Thomas Jefferson's "blood of patriots and tyrants" quote: "The roots of the tree of liberty are watered by what? The blood. Of who? The tyrants, to be sure. But who else? The patriots. Whose blood will be shed? It may be that of those in this room. It might be that of our children and grandchildren."

Former congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) warned recently that a Clinton win might mean this could be the "last election" in which Americans would be able to elect a president with "godly moral principles."

Similarly, other Republicans have warned that nominating Trump might lead to the end of the Republican Party as we know it. George W. Bush even suggested he might be the last Republican president.

Conservative talk show hosts have warned of even worse, up to and including civil war. But Bevin's comments appear to be the most full-throated warning about a Clinton presidency so far from a high-ranking GOP elected official.

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history.

Among the 34 U.S. states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the U.S. and formed the Confederate States of America. War broke out in April 1861 when they attacked a U.S. fortress, Fort Sumter. The Confederacy grew to include eleven states; it claimed two more states and several western territories. The Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by any foreign country. The states that remained loyal including border states where slavery was legal, were known as the Union or the North. The war ended with the surrender of all the Confederate armies and the collapse of Confederate government in spring 1865.

The war had its origin in the factious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories. Four years of intense combat left 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers dead, a higher number than the American military deaths of World War I and World War II combined, and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure. The Confederacy collapsed and slavery was abolished in the entire country. The Reconstruction Era (1863–1877) overlapped and followed the war, with its fitful process of restoring national unity, strengthening the national government, and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves

The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars. Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively. The mobilization of civilian factories, mines, shipyards, banks, transportation and food supplies all foreshadowed the impact of industrialization in World War I. It remains the deadliest war in American history. From 1861 to 1865, it has been traditionally estimated that about 620,000 died but recent scholarship argues that 750,000 soldiers died,[15] along with an undetermined number of civilians.[N 1] By one estimate, the war claimed the lives of 10 percent of all Northern males 20–45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40

The South argued that each state had the right to secede–leave the Union–at any time, that the Constitution was a "compact" or agreement among the states. Northerners (including President Buchanan) rejected that notion as opposed to the will of the Founding Fathers who said they were setting up a perpetual union.[36] Historian James McPherson writes concerning states' rights and other non-slavery explanations:

While one or more of these interpretations remain popular among the Sons of Confederate Veterans and other Southern heritage groups, few professional historians now subscribe to them. Of all these interpretations, the states'-rights argument is perhaps the weakest. It fails to ask the question, states' rights for what purpose? States' rights, or sovereignty, was always more a means than an end, an instrument to achieve a certain goal more than a principle

The election of Lincoln caused the legislature of South Carolina to call a state convention to consider secession. Prior to the war, South Carolina did more than any other Southern state to advance the notion that a state had the right to nullify federal laws and, even, secede from the United States. The convention summoned unanimously voted to secede on December 20, 1860 and adopted the "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union". It argued for states' rights for slave owners in the South, but contained a complaint about states' rights in the North in the form of opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act, claiming that Northern states were not fulfilling their federal obligations under the Constitution. The "cotton states" of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed suit, seceding in January and February 1861.

Among the ordinances of secession passed by the individual states, those of three – Texas, Alabama, and Virginia – specifically mentioned the plight of the 'slaveholding states' at the hands of northern abolitionists. The rest make no mention of the slavery issue, and are often brief announcements of the dissolution of ties by the legislatures.[67] However, at least four states – South Carolina,[68] Mississippi,[69] Georgia,[70] and Texas[71] – also passed lengthy and detailed explanations of their causes for secession, all of which laid the blame squarely on the movement to abolish slavery and that movement's influence over the politics of the northern states. The southern states believed slaveholding was a constitutional right because of the Fugitive slave clause of the Constitution.

These states agreed to form a new federal government, the Confederate States of America, on February 4, 1861.[72] They took control of federal forts and other properties within their boundaries with little resistance from outgoing President James Buchanan, whose term ended on March 4, 1861. Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted to Congress."[73] One quarter of the U.S. Army – the entire garrison in Texas – was surrendered in February 1861 to state forces by its commanding general, David E. Twiggs, who then joined the Confederacy

God_Said saidYes there will be violence if that women is elected. The first thing she'll do is start a war.

She wont start the war, the war will be started by Trump and his tea party deplorables, nice try with the Faux News spin attempt

Bullshit The crooked, power hungry, incompetent whore will start a war much more easily than Donald Trump because she is a war mongering hawk who is owned by the military industrial complex. When are you stupid liberals going to accept the true fact that Donald Trump is the safer, saner, more electable candidate and that your beloved democratic party tossed all of you into the path of a oncoming, high speed train when they nominated the Wicked Witch of Wall Street as their presidential candidate. Hillary rotten Clinton is totally unfit and 100% unqualified for the White House and any of you who vote for her in November are treasonous traitors to this great country.

God_Said saidYes there will be violence if that women is elected. The first thing she'll do is start a war.

She wont start the war, the war will be started by Trump and his tea party deplorables, nice try with the Faux News spin attempt

Bullshit The crooked, power hungry, incompetent whore will start a war much more easily than Donald Trump because she is a war mongering hawk who is owned by the military industrial complex. When are you stupid liberals going to accept the true fact that Donald Trump is the safer, saner, more electable candidate and that your beloved democratic party tossed all of you into the path of a oncoming, high speed train when they nominated the Wicked Witch of Wall Street as their presidential candidate. Hillary rotten Clinton is totally unfit and 100% unqualified for the White House and any of you who vote for her in November are treasonous traitors to this great country.

"You and your people" have pushed this to the brink, no doubt about that. You have wished for and incited discourse, divisiveness, disharmony, obstructionism, martial law, all to fulfill some sic ass fantasy, why must you be "at war" all the time? The right wing nuts that you and your people hitched your wagon to just make it worse as they wish to take it a step further by following some ancient manuscript that parallels the particular film, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, George Orwell 1984 or Terminator II, Judgment Day , all leading to "Revelations", the total destruction of America or maybe the earth.

The 'new world order' is born out of republicanism and conservatism (creationism), NOT of liberalism and progressivism (evolution), why do you and your people continue to 'spin' this around? Is not the liberals who have the "FEMA camps" ready, its the conservatives that do in anticipation of the rapture. This is the deceptive practice, those of us in the know, call, "the man behind the curtain".

You and your people "listen" to propaganda channel Faux News, blow hard radio personalities and instigating, the spin creationist over at my favorite Martian channel Info Wars. You and your people are the consummate comet people, easily influenced followers of the Jim Jones society and 'reality TV'. Once you give your power away, someone else comes in and controls you. Everyone knows, you invite a vampire into your home, it renders you powerless silly.

If you and your people don't like America and its current direction, then you should leave (secession). Stop with the phony 'Im a patriot, smoke screen BS'

God_Said saidYes there will be violence if that women is elected. The first thing she'll do is start a war.

She wont start the war, the war will be started by Trump and his tea party deplorables, nice try with the Faux News spin attempt

Bullshit The crooked, power hungry, incompetent whore will start a war much more easily than Donald Trump because she is a war mongering hawk who is owned by the military industrial complex. When are you stupid liberals going to accept the true fact that Donald Trump is the safer, saner, more electable candidate and that your beloved democratic party tossed all of you into the path of a oncoming, high speed train when they nominated the Wicked Witch of Wall Street as their presidential candidate. Hillary rotten Clinton is totally unfit and 100% unqualified for the White House and any of you who vote for her in November are treasonous traitors to this great country.

"You and your people" have pushed this to the brink, no doubt about that. You have wished for and incited discourse, divisiveness, disharmony, obstructionism, martial law, all to fulfill some sic ass fantasy, why must you be "at war" all the time? The right wing nuts that you and your people hitched your wagon to just make it worse as they wish to take it a step further by following some ancient manuscript that parallels the particular film, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, George Orwell 1984 or Terminator II, Judgment Day , all leading to "Revelations", the total destruction of America or maybe the earth.

The 'new world order' is born out of republicanism and conservatism (creationism), NOT of liberalism and progressivism (evolution), why do you and your people continue to 'spin' this around? Is not the liberals who have the "FEMA camps" ready, its the conservatives that do in anticipation of the rapture. This is the deceptive practice, those of us in the know, call, "the man behind the curtain".

You and your people "listen" to propaganda channel Faux News, blow hard radio personalities and instigating, the spin creationist over at my favorite Martian channel Info Wars. You and your people are the consummate comet people, easily influenced followers of the Jim Jones society. Once you give your power away, someone else comes in and controls you. Everyone knows, you invite a vampire into your home, it renders you powerless silly.

If you and your people don't like America and its current direction, then you should leave (secession). Stop with the phony 'Im a patriot, smoke screen BS'

You are a mindless sycophant of both the Wicked Witch of Wall Street who is a war mongering neoliberal and the corrupt, incompetent democratic party. You need to get your head out of your ass and come up for some long overdue fresh air. You also need to stop listening to all the lies and propaganda on mainstream corporate media. You need to stop listening to dishonest media outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN News, etc. and start getting your news information from any of the alternative news sources and even Fox News which is far more trustworthy and accurate than any of these leftist corporate news outlets. You liberals are being lied to over and over again but you are all too goddamned stupid to accept this true fact and all of you keep burying your heads in the mud.

Bullshiticon_exclaim.gif The crooked, power hungry, incompetent whore will start a war much more easily than Donald Trump because she is a war mongering hawk who is owned by the military industrial complex. When are you stupid liberals going to accept the true fact that Donald Trump is the safer, saner, more electable candidate and that your beloved democratic party tossed all of you into the path of a oncoming, high speed train when they nominated the Wicked Witch of Wall Street as their presidential candidate. Hillary rotten Clinton is totally unfit and 100% unqualified for the White House and any of you who vote for her in November are treasonous traitors to this great country.

A brilliant example of the childish, name-calling tripe that passes for political comment among the unstable. Hatred of anyone with a different opinion, the belief that "clever" epithets are convincing or even mean anything, and the pre-adolescent urge to kick sand in everyone's eyes who won't play your game. A perfect illustration of all that is wrong with the polity of those childish enough to buy unto all the Trump tantrums. Thank God for the "Ignore" button.